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Here's yet another Halloween prank, this one at Brookshire Pumpkin Farm in San Luis Obispo, California, where people are expecting scares. I particularly like the kids who get scared and then help scare other people. Link: https://youtu.be/LlaZgamwFkc by … Continue reading →

From YouTube prankster Rahat, an artificial intelligence picks up some food at the drive-thru: Link: https://youtu.be/CdggQr05LAA Here's a classic from a few years back: A skeleton gets a variety of reactions at the drive-thru: Link: https://youtu.be/FXgokniKNE4 More posts about pranks … Continue reading →

In this short (under four-minute) video essay John Green talks about YouTube Red -- which basically gives you ad-free YouTube and some exclusive content for $10 a month -- and what that might mean for the future of YouTube. John … Continue reading →

When I was growing up there were urban legends of evil people slipping razor blades into apples to give to kids on Halloween. Yes, kids, back in those days razor blades were paper-thin pieces of metal rather than plastic cartridges … Continue reading →

Following up on yesterday's post on how Jabba the Hutt deserves more respect, here's an interesting real-life discussion between a father and his five-year-old daughter about the outfit Jabba bought Princess Leia when they were dating. (It's a recorded conversation … Continue reading →

A few years ago I went into a comic books store to buy a book of reprints of Marvel comics from my remote youth (back when comics were printed in Latin on cheap papyrus) and happened to notice something in … Continue reading →